Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-09
CONSUMPTION NOT CURED,
But the New Treatment Has Benefited Pa.
tients, and May Prove of Great Value.
PHILADELPHIA Press

tients, and May Prove of Great Value
Philadelphia Press.
The Medical News, of April l, says that
recent articles extensively published
throughout the country announcing the
cure, at the Philadelphia Hospital, of q
number of patients suffering with con-
sumption through treatment by injections
of carbonic acid gas and sulphuretted
hydrogen, greatly exaggerated the success
of the treatment. The treatment, it says,
was first introduced by Bergeon of Lyons.
In an editorial article on the subject, the
Medical News says:
$50 far as we know, there have beenno
eases cured certainly not at the PhiIa-
delphia Hospital, and even those of Ber-
geon's patients who were most benefited
continued TO have slight expectoration,
containing bscili. The results at the
Philadelphia Hospital, in the limited
series of cases which have been under
treatment, have been in the reduction of
the fever and the sweats, the lessening OF
the eXpectoratiOn, and in the increase of
weight. These are gains to be thankful
for, and encourage US to hope that we
may have here q remedial measure of
some value, but further than this nothing
can be said. PhthislS, as we usually
meet it, is au acute disease, and an eXper-
fence of seven weeks is far too short d
tim IN which to form judgment of the
permanent benefCent effects of the treat
ment. 1t will take year or tTO, at least,
to thoroughly test its value"
The Medical News will also contain al
article on the treatment at the PhiladeI-
ph!a Hospital Of pulmonary diseases by
gaseous epemqta, contributed by Pro
fessOr Edward I. Bruen, Nj. D., one of
the physicians 70 the hospital. DR.. Bruen
says:
The twenty-five cases Of phthisis
chosen on which to make trial of the gas
included mostly patients suffering from
advanced LESSONS, nearly all associated
with cavities, marked bronchial catarrh
aud some laTyngeal LESSONS. The histories
of the cases under treatment have shown
that the element of suppuratlon, as it oc-
ours in the pulmonary cavities and in the
bronchial passages, has been positively
and promptly antagOnized. The temper
allure has been reduced in q few days, and
within two weeks has frequently been
brought to q normal point. In grave
cases with advanced pulmonary LESSONS
the temperature has continued to rise a
degree or so above the normal standard,
but during the period of treatment in
more than twenty cases the temperature
chart has always been positively modified
Together with the reduction in tempera-
ture has followed the cessation of night
eweats in most instances, and in all this
symptom has been markedly Iessened.
Ia cases in which evidence of bronchial
catarrh have been present, such as rsles
and COpiOus mucO-DuTulent expectora-
ton, the reles have disappeared or have
been decidedly decreased, and in nearly
all instances the digestive system has been
tavOrably affected, the tongue has become
clean and natural, the appetite has in
creased, and also the ability to as initiate
and appropriate food. In most cases the
gain in weight has been progressive and
considerable, and the nervous symptoms
incident to phthlsis decidedly Influenced
for the better, and more cheerful dispo-
sitiOn secured"